This website contains articles on the value of handmade items and creations. The author also includes worksheets that you may use to track the true cost of your handmade quilts to help you price them fairly, as well as invoice forms for you to use when selling your quilts.

This link takes you to a form developed by Moda Bake Shop, a website by Moda Fabrics. The form has spaces on which to record all the dimensions and fabric needs for a quilt, as well as boxes to check off to indicated whether or not you have the fabric for the sashing, backing, borders and binding "stashed" or if you have to purchase it. You can use it to keep track of your progress on your UFOs; keep these sheets together in a folder (or three-ring binder, if you have a LOT of UFOs!) so you can peek at them once in a while and see what you have to work on. This will also give you a source of information to use when going on shop hops. If you feel like you MUST buy something at each shop, why not check your UFO binder and see if you need backing or other fabric for one of your unfinished projects? There is a blank area for Notes at the bottom of the sheet; I think that would be a good place to attach a swatch of each fabric you have for that project so you can take it along when buying the fabric for borders, binding, etc.

Use a lint roller with the tear-off sheets to help keep the mess contained when opening a precut, such as a jelly roll. After removing the wrapping, if any, from the jelly roll, run the lint roller over the top and bottom of the spiral before unrolling the strips in order to pick up all those little bits of fabric that usually fall everywhere and make a mess. You can also run the lint roller all four edges of a charm pack or layer cake to pick up the little "chibbles" of fabric from those precuts as well.- Dottie Macomber

"There's no crying in quilting." Oh wait, that's baseball.

This tip came in an order from Ami Simms!

"If a fabric is still ugly, cut it into smaller pieces."

"Some days you just need to stop and go bake brownies."

Sign seen recently in a sewing studio: "Yes, I really do need all this fabric!"